SENNA
Type: biographical
Direction: Vicente Amorim. With Gabriel Leone, Kaya Scodelario, Matt Mella, Keisuke Hoashi, Johannes Heinrichs, Joe Hurts, Steven Mackintosh, Pâmela Tomé. On Netflix
May 1, 1994 it is one of the most tragic dates in the sporting calendar of fans and enthusiasts; And the day Ayrton Senna lost his life on the Imola circuit after ending up with his car against the wall of the Tamburello curve.
On the thirtieth anniversary of his disappearance, he arrives from his native Brazil a TV series of notable impact that traces the life and career of a sporting icon consigned to myth.
Gabriel Leone is Ayrton Senna in the Netflix biopic (photo by Alan Roskyn/Netflix).
Seine is a product in six episodes with a high production budget, a meticulous reconstruction of the salient steps of the Brazilian driver’s career, from his debut with go-karts to the Formula 1 world championships.
Thus we encounter the human side of Senna, a character we remember as shy and polite, his childhood in a wealthy family, his loves, his rivalry with Prost. “Beco”, as he was nicknamed as a child, it appears to us in unprecedented nuances even if the most intimate dimension too often remains on the surface.
The actor Gabriel Leone plays the face of the adult Sennawhich manages to restore the profile of one of the greatest sportsmen of the twentieth century; the series is a biopic that adds to the many documentaries that have tried to investigate behind the accident and the pilot’s death.
To continue to remember and delve into the personality of a Formula 1 legend.
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